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the sandwich was full of all kinds of things
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Never bought into the isolationist Trump line but I did wonder for bit whether his sort of petulant myopic stupidity might possibly, perversely, result in less commitment to the ideological neocon line. I now know this was very stupid of me

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

the last paragraph here left me stunned

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

I don't want to be an old crank so I'm trying to be scrupulously open to any real utility of LLMs but it's pretty wild how many use cases touted by boosters are along the lines of "I asked it how to organize my fridge and it told me to put the vegetables in the crisper 😲"

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Why does this have the exact tone and cadence of a podcaster's notes app statement about their collaborator who is being cancelled for underpaying their interns or something

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

not sure about this metaphor Herman

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

ready for your bean brick?

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

so many Americans seem to have seen maybe one clip of some Iranians chanting "death to America" at some point in the last 40 years, and have accepted that as a completely sufficient picture of Iran while studiously not considering why an Iranian might feel that way

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

some guys I met this weekend

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I STARTED the mole people. I was there first. And then they made up committees that throw people out just because they don't like the way you look.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

spent the afternoon in Deep Time

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Every single sanction placed on Russia should be on Israel..stomach churning hypocrisy from Europe. Greta said it as it is - racism.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

If you do all the jobs I have for you, I will grant you the rank of %NextPCRank.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

feminist Boswell

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

funny bit in Boswell is Hume being considered a radical "infidel" beyond the pale of reasonable discourse by pretty much all of Johnson's set

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

doing another run through the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey-Maturin novels and increasingly coming to the conclusion that they are books about Coworkers

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

every time I see a fresh NYT headline I think of this

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We have lost all contact with our UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, communications have been cut off. This morning, for the first time in months, we did not receive their morning messages to say, "good morning" and "we are fine/alive". We anxiously await to hear from our colleagues.

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

In case you haven't noticed, I have the same augmentation technology as you.

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wizard videos

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hot day

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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 10,1965

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Marcuse to Horkheimer, 4/4/43, right after starting his gig at the OSS, on how they keep asking him to say Nazism has “Bolshevik tendencies” & he keeps saying nah, but that he is finding Nazi tendencies in the US lol

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